Co-processing acceleration method, apparatus, and system

Abstract

An embodiment of the present invention discloses a co-processing acceleration method, including: receiving a co-processing request message which is sent by a compute node in a computer system and carries address information of to-be-processed data; according to the co-processing request message, obtaining the to-be-processed data, and storing the to-be-processed data in a public buffer card; and allocating the to-be-processed data stored in the public buffer card to an idle co-processor card in the computer system for processing. An added public buffer card is used as a public data buffer channel between a hard disk and each co-processor card of a computer system, and to-be-processed data does not need to be transferred by a memory of the compute node, which avoids overheads of the data in transmission through the memory of the compute node, and thereby breaks through a bottleneck of memory delay and bandwidth, and increases a co-processing speed.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation of International Application No. PCT / CN2011 / 083770, filed on Dec. 9, 2011, which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates to the computer field, and in particular, to a co-processing acceleration method, an apparatus, and a system.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]With the development of computer technologies, computers are applied in increasingly wider fields. In addition to common computer office applications in everyday life, the computers are also applied in some very complex fields, such as large-scale scientific computing and massive data processing, which usually have higher requirements on the processing capability of the computers. However, the processing capability of a single computer is limited, and is likely to become a bottleneck of improving system performance in the foregoing large-scale computing scenarios, and this...

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Benefits of technology

The present invention provides a computer system and related tools to reduce memory usage and increase processing speed. By using a public buffer card as a buffer for processing between nodes and co-processor cards, data does not need to be transferred through the main computer memory, avoiding memory usage. This reduces bandwidth limitations and increases the speed at which data is processed.

Problems solved by technology

However, the processing capability of a single computer is limited, and is likely to become a bottleneck of improving system performance in the foregoing large-scale computing scenarios, and this problem is effectively solved as a cluster system emerges.

By adopting such architecture in the prior art, all to-be-processed data has to be transferred through the memory of the computer node, which increase memory overheads, and due to the limits of factors such as the memory bandwidth and delay, a co-processing speed is not high.

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